steals JamieLew’s cupcakes 
Went round to a friend’s house a week or so ago, and we made some very bad cakes. I had some photos, by they’re all on my mobile. We decorated them by writing some of our favourite words in icing, such as w00t, gayinal, and roffle. Good stuff.
Looking at some of these past pages… Wow! GasDude, you can make chocolatechip cookies? I never managed to make that turn out quite right. One time I tried to make the dough for it and my mom told me that it’s supposed to be a bit runnier than most types of cookie dough and only melted the butter (I have an egg allergy and while it gets me out of having vacceines it makes baking a bit more tricky). Well, I put everything in and when I finished that it was still really dry for any type of cookie dough, so I asked my mom about what to do and she said that it sometimes happens and to put some milk in until it looks about right. Well, I put some in and it wasn’t right so I put more in and repeated it a few times with out any real reasults so I decided to pour in a larger amount, I put in a quarter of the thing and it was fairly liquidy so I asked my mom (who thought I knew what it was supposed to be like) to look at it. Appearently it was now the same consistancy as cake batter, so she poured it in some cup cake moulds, it tasted alright but…I don’t think I’ll be trying again for a while.
The only dessert I can really do is chocolates, all that it really takes is cutting the chocolate melting it and adding condenced milk (which comes in a handy premeasured can) and later rolling it and putting it in more chocolate (It’s not the regular kind of chocolates but I don’t remember the real name for it) that I can usually manage (by manage I mean get by with one very small cut that heals in about three days and one or two first degree burns), although the first time some of the mixture burnt because I had set the temperature too high and I had to go through it, picking out any brunt parts in there. There is also the last time that was quite the interesting stroy and needs a whole post to istelf if anyone’s interested.
Cooking, Cooking, Cooking…
Where do I begin??
When I was about ten I wanted to make cookies for my mom. So I threw flour, water and sugar in a bowl, plopped some on a pan and set it in the oven. Twenty minutes later I took them out and, My oven mitt things caught on fire. so there I was, fire in my hand, when My mom ran in, took the burning oven mitts and threw then in the sink with the dishes. The cookies tasted like sugary rocks, anyways…So now I just stick to pre-packaged place-n-bake cookies and I still make my mom take them out of the oven XD
I have just filled the house with the nauseating smoky fumes of burnt microwave popcorn. Cross another food off my list of things that haven’t burst into flame.
CutieZuki: Oh my lord! THat has got to be the scariest cooking experience I have ever heard! Fire is dangerous, but I am glad you are alright.
TSS: Yeah, it was pretty alarming!! Thankfully I didnt get burned though!! Just traumatized…jk jk
Yep I can tell.
BUt seriously, you got to hold fire in your hand? Oh man! You have beome like a divine being or something to me!
Well, I’m not gonna lie…I AM pretty amazing…
ha ha!!!
Here is an easy thing to cook for you all: SUSHI!!!
Wow, your oven mits caught fire? That’s amazing but, probably not much fun when it’s actually happening. Personally, I’m surprised nothing ever caught fire on me (A few times it’s probably been close but,…didn’t). It seems that when I make anything sweet it’s usually a trade-off, either it turns out looking and tasting alright and I hurt myself at some point or it turns out, while adimittingly tasting O.K. (I’ve only tried making things that are really hard to get absolutely spectacularly wrong) and I go through the process completely unharmed, although once almost everything that could go wrong, did.
The disaster chocolates story
I have a friend who lives in boarding school with their younger sister and since she’s the only family member who can be there for special events, I always send a “care package” just for the event and sometimes include homemade chocolates. Well, last time I made chocolates was for my friend’s birthday in April, which ment we had to ship it on a certain day to make sure it arrived on time, but didn’t find out until the afternoon of the day before we were supposed to ship the package out (I’m awful at remembering certain dates and times, there has to be something unusual about it to stick so I may have been told, but thought it was later). So, with the short deadline in mind, washed my hands and started cutting the chocolate, and at first it looked like it would go well, I managed to cut what I had with out cutting my hand (I usually nic myself atleast once and use the least leathal knife possible) but then realised after I cut what I had, that I didn’t have enough and we couldn’t go and buy more because the store was closed and the package was supposed to go out tomorrow. So, after looking to see if I had missed any in the cupboard decided “Oh well, chocolate is chocolate” and put some chocolate chips in (I had been using white chocolate), and even that wasn’t too bad. The beginning of the end for it all was when I put the condensed milk in the pot with the chocolate, appearently condensed milk is really thick and sticky so alot of it was still stuck to the inside of the can and in my rush didn’t want to go and get a spoon for it and decided to use my fingers. And inevitably cut my finger on the lid (although I at least got most of the condensed milk out first) and so I had to soak my finger in disinfectant and hold a tissue to it to try and stop the bleeding before getting a band-aid but it just wouldn’t stop so I had to get a band-aid and stick it so tightly it cut most of the circulation off before it stoped bleeding. Well, eventually I managed to get the mixture done without anything else going wrong, and set it to cool overnight so I could finish the next morning. So the next morning I got up early and rolled the things and that went by without any disaster, surprisingly there was no blood in the mixture, which was a nice surprise after last night. However, your supposed to cool the mixture for a few hours after rolling it, which we didn’t have time for (especially because we had to freeze the chocolates so they wouldn’t go bad while being shiped), so I put it in the “less-than-spacious-fridge” to cool a little bit while I waited for the “dipping chocolate” to melt. I started to dip the chocolates and then realised that it hadn’t been long enough and the things were melting so I had to keep the trays in the fridge and just take out the ones I was dipping and then put them back after wards. To make matters worse I hadn’t put enough “dipping chocolate” in so I kept having to melt more. Though eventually I managed to finish it and they actually tasted alright, but admittingly they did look like bits of gravel (the kind that they put near train tracks). I actually told my friend about everything that happened even the night before, I even quickly sent them an email saying “don’t worry, I didn’t bleed in the chocolates and I sent you the least gravel-ly ones”.
JamieLew - Those cupcakes look absolutely delicious! They look good enough to pluck right out of the screen… 
CutieZuki02 - Yow! Your oven mitts caught on fire? Cool! Dangerous, yes, but kinda cool at the same time… I’m glad that you were o.k.! 
MiniChuchan - Ha! That sounds like something that would happen to me if I tried to bake cookies on my own, which I never have. This is exactly why I don’t cook… 
– Mitch
I remembered a while back, I made cookies for my GF for the holiday, but it was kinda undercooked, as it was a little doughy. But still it was an enjoyable eat.
Hee Hee. I know one trick to help prevent/reduce burns on your hands is to run your hands under cold water before putting them somewhere where they might get burnt. I actually learnt this one on “Honey I shrunk the kids the T.V show” there’s this one scene where this one man is trying to teach his fish to jump through a flaming hoop and tries to coax it into jumping by telling it the cold water will keep it from getting burnt.
I hope this helps, it helped me
Thanks Mitch. 
Yeah, the getting the hand wet thing works… I remember one time my sister was burning the edges of paper to make it look distressed and old for a school project and she accidentally started a fire on our dining room table. My mom’s hands were wet because she was washing dishes or something and came running out and in her panic she slapped out the fire with her wet hands. It was pretty impressive.
MiniChuchan Wow. I’ve heard of that trick before, but I was rather unsure as to whether or not it actually worked. Now I know. Pretty cool!
JamieLew - You’re welcome.
Today I attempted to cook some prepackaged lasagna. Notice the word “attempted”. I cook it for the correct amount of time and the bottom turned out cold anyway. I try and I try…and I still can’t cook even a freakin’…lasagna! (snigger)
– Mitch
I know how you must feel. I found out a couple of weeks ago that I can’t even peel potatos.
Every so often my mom decides that I should try to do something that I really can’t, and this time the task was peeling two potatoes to make my dinner that night. And after trying to sway her decision eventually picked up a potato and tried to peel it. But, no matter how hard I pressed on the peeler, it just wouldn’t work it only did this flippy-thing. So, I kept flipping away and flipping away and it didn’t do any (flipping?) good. Eventually, I finished the first one but ultimately went through about 4 potatoes because potatoes are a bit big and I have small hands which, while great for making little dolls as well as doing quite a few of my other hobbies, aren’t that great for holding bigger things like potatoes. So, I used twice as many as I expected because I kept dropping the things on the counter and having to throw them out. Personally I’m surprised the first one didn’t oxidise and turn all blackish blue by the time I finished both
Just now I cooked a pizza and the oven actually started on fire. Don’t worry, I took care of it.
Wow! That must’ve been scary Bill. No one hurt, I’m hoping right?
TSS - Thank god, no.